Martu (Aboriginal)

The Martu are an Aboriginal tribe in Western Australia , Australia . In 2002 they were awarded one of the largest native titles in Australia by the High Court of Australia over a total area of 136,000 km². Today there are about 1000 Martu. About 50 to 200 of them live on their ancestral land and feed on traditional hunting and bush food . With the Martu, in addition to the native species, the house cat - which causes great damage to the endemic fauna - is on the menu today (→ see also: Future development of traditional economic forms ) .

The native title of the Martu extends over an area in the Pilbara and Percival Lakes region in Western Australia and borders on the area of the Aboriginal Pintupi . The land right won in court goes back to a decades-long battle of interests that began in 1946 with the Pilbara Strike of several hundred farm workers who opposed the working conditions and the like. a. turned in the dairy industry, left their jobs and claimed their ancestral land.

The Martu Wangka language group includes various dialects such as Manyjilyjarra, Kartujarra, Kiyajarra, Putijarra, Nyiyaparli, Warnman, Ngulipartu, Pitjikala, Kurajarra, Jiwaliny, Mangala and Nangajarra. In their language, Martu means “one of us” or “person”.

Martu groups live in the Aboriginal settlements of Jigalong , Wiluna , Punmu , Parnngurr and Kunawarritji . The most important community is Parnngurr, about 1000 km northeast of Perth in the former Rudall River National Park, which was renamed Karlamilyi National Park .

The Rabbit-Proof Fence runs through the Martu area . The film of the same name (in the German Long Walk Home ) is based on the experiences of three girls from the Martu tribe. The Martu area was so far removed from civilization that many of the Martu first came into contact with whites when the Canning Stock Route was built between 1906 and 1907 .

The documentary Contact from 2009 shows the first meeting of a group of 20 Martu women and two whites from 1964, which has received national and international awards.

literature

Monty Hale (Minyjun): Kurlumarniny: We Come from the Desert. Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra 2012, ISBN 978-0-85575-830-1 (paperback); ISBN 978-0-85575-848-6 (eBook) [A Martu autobiography from the Pilbara region; bilingual: Nyangumarta dialect u. English translation] . [Table of contents: http://scans.hebis.de/HEBCGI/show.pl?28834942_toc.pdf ]

Web links

puntukurnu.com : Location map of the Native Title

Individual evidence

^ Learning the Hard Way. Retrieved October 21, 2019 . , Stanford magazine 2010
↑ Walsh, F .: To hunt and to hold: Martu Aboriginal people's uses and knowledge of their country, with implications for co-management in Karlamilyi (Rudall River) National Park and the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia. PhD Thesis, School of social and Cultural Studies and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia. Book Chapter, University of Western Australia, Perth, procite: 286ebedb-588d-4c5a-a0be-baaf92021f9d, Photo 5.1
↑ ^a ^b nntt.gov.au: WA's Martu People achieve native title recognition in Western Desert ( Memento April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), September 27, 2002, accessed on July 3, 2012

[1] Learning the Hard Way. Retrieved October 21, 2019 . , Stanford magazine 2010

[2] Walsh, F .: To hunt and to hold: Martu Aboriginal people's uses and knowledge of their country, with implications for co-management in Karlamilyi (Rudall River) National Park and the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia. PhD Thesis, School of social and Cultural Studies and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia. Book Chapter, University of Western Australia, Perth, procite: 286ebedb-588d-4c5a-a0be-baaf92021f9d, Photo 5.1

[nnt-3] tt.gov.au: WA's Martu People achieve native title recognition in Western Desert ( Memento April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), September 27, 2002, accessed on July 3, 2012